I want to make my own iron-on labels and patches (small scale, for fun).

Does anyone know what the name of the adhesive is? All I can find when I search online are people wanting to sell me pre-made patches, not information about their composition.

I presume it’s some low melting point (<100degC) polymer. For all I know a wide variety of things might work (maybe even PETG 3d printer filament, which softens around 70degC, or hot glue shavings), but I’d like to see if I can at least find out the name of what’s commercially used.

EDIT: Solved, see https://aussie.zone/comment/4326482

  • WaterWaiver@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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    11 months ago

    “Sulky BSN” is apparently a polyamide (not a PE/PET/hotgluestick) material. That would make it different to the other stuff I link and talk about in other comments here. Not sure if it would be any better, but unfortunately it looks very expensive to get in Australia.

    • LilaOrchidee@feddit.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Idk about the other comments, I was responding to your initial request for the bonding material when making patches. I’m EU based, in AUS you’ll probably have different brands for the same goal. Have you checked sewing supplies webshops (or rather machine embroidery webshops)? Not all of them have this adhesive, but if they have a wide variety of different kinds of machine embroidery stabilisers then there’s a chance they will have rhis as well. Here’s an example https://hswoz.com.au/product-category/backings-toppings/iron-on-backings/